The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

While the metaverse sprang to public attention with the renaming of Facebook earlier this year, the phrase was coined back in 1996 in Neal Stephenson’s book Snow Crash, in which the science fiction author described an immersive version of the internet that was accessed via virtual reality. It’s a market that is already worth $3.1

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2012

Then there's another view, which I heard from author Neal Stephenson in an MIT lecture hall last week. Stephenson was clearly trying to be provocative. Gordon's productivity research.) but the emerging markets boom has generally been more about catching up than exploiting cutting-edge technology.).

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2017

Rising sea levels flood Manhattan in Kim Stanley Robinson’s New York 2140 , prompting hedge fund managers and real estate investors to create a new intertidal market index. They make us more efficient and productive. William Gibson famously coined the term “cyberspace” in his 1984 masterpiece Neuromancer.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2014

OnLive’s product enabled high-end video games to be hosted in the cloud and played from any device. The ask: invest $35 million for exclusive bundling rights to the US market. Cool new technology, new market for AT&T, competitive pressure, etc. The decision maker at AT&T was CEO Randall Stephenson.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2016

As AT&T CEO and Chair Randall Stephenson, recently told the New York Times, “There is a need to retool yourself, and you should not expect to stop… People who do not spend five to 10 hours a week in online learning will obsolete themselves with the technology.” To atrophy is to lose in the market. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2018

When Apple CEO Steve Jobs approached AT&T about partnering on a new kind of mobile phone — a touchscreen computer that would fit in your pocket — Apple had no expertise in the mobile market. Randall Stephenson, then CEO of AT&T, famously said , “I told people you weren’t betting on a device.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2013

The marketing head of an ambitious technology firm recently shared with me a vexing problem: Apple was one of their customers. As Michael Stephenson , a key leader in global customer programs at Oracle puts it, his firm has various business units that focus on specific industries. But it is not insoluble.

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